João Seixas

Com a Cabeça na Lua

Charlie Fletcher

Quando George quebrou a cabeça da estátua do dragão no Museu de História Natural de Londres estava a anos-luz de poder imaginar que esse acto impensado viria a ter consequências verdadeiramente catastróficas para a sua vida e para a própria cidade. Uma força poderosíssima, adormecida desde tempos imemoriais nas profundezas da capital, aguardava pela oportunidade de voltar à vida, e agora esse momento tinha finalmente chegado. O caos da devastação ameaça instalar-se, e para repor a normalidade George terá de empenhar toda a sua coragem e contar com a preciosa ajuda de Edie e de um soldado da Primeira Guerra Mundial, eles próprios também estátuas. Uma aventura épica de cortar a respiração, que nos dá a conhecer uma outra Londres, absolutamente fascinante, e que promete continuar em futuros volumes.

Stone Heart: O enigma da esfinge

Pedro Sacramento

Pedro Bicudo

J Emílio Ribeiro

Vitor Vieira

The XVIII Lisbon Autumn School brought together physicists from different areas, ranging from QCD to condensed matter. This subject will be of ever-growing importance in the coming years. The topics covered are: Anomalies, Physical Charges, Chiral Symmetry, Vortices (Superconductivity, Solitons, Kosterlitz–Thouless Transitions), Non-trivial Topology on the Lattice, Confinement (Wilson Loops and Strings, Instantons, Abelian Higgs Model, Dual QCD). Contents:Vortices in Superfluids and Superconductors, and Topological Defects in Other Materials (D J Thouless)Interplay of Real Space and Momentum Space Topologies in Strongly Correlated Fermionic Systems (G E Volovik)Topological Excitations and Second Order Transitions in 3D O(N) Models (L M A Bettencourt)Quantum Numbers of Solitons and Theta-Terms in Nonlinear Sigma-Models (P B Wiegmann)Center Vortices in Continuum Yang-Mills Theory (H Reinhardt & M Engelhardt)Monopoles and Confining Strings in QCD (M N Chernodub et al.)Effective String Theory of Vortices and Regge Trajectories of Hybrid Mesons with Zero Mass Quarks (M Baker & R Steinke)The Regularization Problem and Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory (J Zinn-Justin)Regulated Chiral Gauge Theory (H Neuberger)Probing the QCD Vacuum (N Brambilla)Pointlike Hopf Defects in Abelian Projections (F Bruckmann)On the Topological Susceptibility in Abelian-Projected SU(2) Gluodynamics (S Kato)and other papers Readership: Condensed-matter and particle physicists. Keywords:

Topology of Strongly Correlated Systems

Abel Albet

This volume examines the issues of urban governance in the Southern European context. Illustrated by case studies of several main cities and metropoles on the North Mediterranean coast, it introduces and critically analyses the latest theories and approaches to urban governance. It questions how the 'real' or socio-cultural notion of city seems to have been separated from that of the 'political' city and explores how more integrated socio-political forms might be developed. It looks at current structures, dynamics and cultures of governance in urban development and questions whether they are well adapted to new realities and challenges.

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